shameless font packaging begging again

I saw a presentation today done with a blackboard background using Apple’s Chalkboard font. I think SMonohand might be a good font to do this kind of thing in an open way. It will probably appeal to kids too.

Anyone up for packaging it? :):)

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Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

Mo, sometime after I migrate back to Boston (right after FUDCon), we’re going to have a font packaging party and get Really, Really Good at packaging fonts. Then we can start making “Ha! Another new font packaged!” posts as well. ;-)

That would be most excellent Michel! There’s tons of fonts I want to package so I’ll have no lack of fonts to package myself once Mel shows me the way :) So if you’re up for giving this font a try now, that would be awesome!

Here’s the review request. There’s a couple of things I’m uncertain about, but that’s what reviews are for, after all (e.g. I listed SMonohand as a replacement for Chalkboard, not sure if that’s needed or not).

Why would anyone want to use a Comic Sans MS monospaced lookalike is beyond me. Even if you want something casual, this (as Comic Sans MS) is a badly executed font, with a poor design. The style is not really coherent from letter to letter, with some really simple while others sport serif-like cruft.

Well, more choice to the people i guess. As long as it’s not a default or recommended font in any sensible application.